Show SALT LAKE GIRL f CLINGS TO LOVER I I THE BARS i 1 b Repulses Parents Who Mort Mortgage Mortgage Mortgage H gage Home to Bring Her HerBack HerBack HerBack Back From Denver f TELLS A LURID STORY ST RY t ABOUT HER ESCAPADES LOUISE SCHWARTZ SAYS SHE i DONNED MANS CLOTHING j jAND C Ca HOUSES AND ROBBED HOUSES 1 a f t t 4 Special to The Herald f 4 Denver Coio COlO SOY Nov ov Elvira Nil Mil UI 4 f ler ier Burgmann whose real name Is 4 4 4 Louise Schwartz who told the police 4 4 that she Bhe had bad donned the clothes lothel of 4 I 4 Adolph alias Klein 4 4 9 and robbed numerous Denver houses 4 4 4 tonight spurned her h r parents and de t 4 t 4 dared that she he would rather be a f 4 prisoner with tho the man who has h 4 4 brought her to the lowest depths 4 t 4 than be recd alone Joseph Schwartz 4 f f fand 4 and his hl hi good rood wife have hae Identified the tile 4 f 4 girl as their daughter Louise The rite 4 4 parents mortgaged their little ho home ne 4 I 4 In Salt Lake City to come to 4 to get their daughter and the daugh daught f t 4 4 ter tE met m meet t them coldly announcing that 4 I I 4 she would not leave the man who Js is J 4 I 4 as a traitor by her lier father 4 I 4 The girl who was first suspected of 4 4 4 Infanticide and held with the time man 4 4 4 who passed us at her husband is but 4 16 15 years old say her parents Site Slie 4 4 aImEd that she Is 3 5 and at th t f 4 same time has stated repeatedly repeated that 4 i 4 her parents are dead Louise Loule 4 4 Schwartz was for tor a time a student 4 4 in the University of Utah 4 4 According to the girls father ather Pret 4 4 1 has a wife in Germany He 4 4 4 4 came to Salt Lake penniless and was 4 si befriended by b Schwartz who al allowed 4 of f lowed tim him to live in his until he 4 1 4 obtained employment While being 4 4 befriended in this manner says as 4 4 Schwartz to k advantage 4 4 tage tase of his daughter daught r When charged 4 4 with the offense he left Ift A short 4 1 4 time later the girl also left The 4 4 will aill release the girl to her 4 4 parents who will take her back to 4 4 Salt Lake Lale tomorrow 4 4 4 f MM y J 1 For sheer audacity and as a a problem In i j I criminology Louise Schwartz a Salt Lake girl and the daughter of a re respected 14 j j family has broken Into a unique M j T position in iii criminal annals i At present time she is taking up front page space in the Denver Dener papers remarkable confessions fol r arrest as the th accomplice 06 or a am 1 aan m ail an in Charged with stealing two to bicycles lif Denver she sho Is known as Louise L ulse Doeh M e J wife qt Adolph erg J 1 Jer tf tr and I 1 booked as Mrs Elvira Miller Milter i Burgmann The TIle girl how however however ever er Is In reality the daughter of Joseph Schwartz a polisher in the I X L Fur Furniture s and C I 1 House and residing at 10 East court The problem presented pre in Louise Schwartz Schart Is whether she Is I a clever thief worthy of ot the challenge of ot a Fagan an audacious liar for the sake s of question questionable questionable f fable able notoriety or the victim of or an over oer overwhelming whelming infatuation for the man who Is alleged alle Pd to have her under his spell spellA A week ago aea was Vas arrested in Denver charged with the theft of two bicycles Following his arrest he lie told f the police pollee In a burst of confidence that he and his wife had bad buried burled a child in a secluded spot POt f in Denver In Investigation Investigation was as made and the tiny body found round as described There was W S however no evidence of ot foul play pia although it ap appeared appeared appeared that the child had been neglected Discover Rich Booty however the of officers officers In the investigation I visited the rooms occupied by Pret Prot I and the girl and discovered dh t over Oct 1000 worth of goods that appeared to have been stolen Suspicion was M so sa strong that the girl was detained Wednesday she too either Ither through t rou h bravado or a desire to save savi sa her paramour made a confession startling in Its de dr details tails talIs She not only ani told the police that garbed In her husbands clothes clothE he had committed twelve burglaries in Denver Dener but that for years she had plied piled the th trade of a thief in Salt Lake and during all the time had bad not only outwitted the po police pOlice lice here but laughed at them Her Startling Confession tier Her confession made marle to thI enver po police police lice follows J I 1 am JO 0 years ears old olI and have hn been heen clever thief since I was 12 years EJuS old I Iam Iam I Iam am the daughter of a former official In th I Mormon church at Salt Lake My Mv Iv made me a thief by teaching me m to liP spy upon the actions of oC my mother whom he me distrusted Then one day da aft my n twelfth birthday I 1 stole a II gold i ia a womans back as a she was walking the street That was WaA the beginning It seem seemed l to b be second sP Ond nature for me rue to L grab things and I kept it up I stole right and left in Salt SaIt Lake and never wai wa de dl detected detected Scarcely a dey pass d but that I committed at least one p petty tty larceny It may mav seem strange but I went alone stealing lots Iota of or valuable things for a It pe period period of five years ears In Salt Lake and got It away with it Once or twice I came near being caught by b detectives detective working wor king on O l 1 I 1 I j thefts but I always managed to tn j I pIa play olay the th part of a thickhead and was waI over oer overlooked overlooked looked because the thought I was all a 1 I simpleton t tI I l remember one time when two to det dete 3 j iI tives laughed at me anti and called me a little lItle 1 But the was on thorn 1 J Continued on Page 5 i j tt SALT LAKE GIRL CLINGS TO LOVER LOVE BEHIND ND THE BARS because at that very el moment I had stolen jewelry with me which they were tearing the town upside down to find But I F am disgusted with It ft all and want to be punished I want to square things I for tor Adolph He to blame in the least leaB He is a fellow and would never have havo been arrested if tr It hant ha nt been for me rae He steal a smooth dime from a blind woman And he liko Ilk It either Now Ill Iu tell you ou all aU about the thebold thebold thebold bold bad burglar Im lm that burglar Adolph was too chickenhearted to enter a house I dressed up in n a suit of ot Adolphs clothing trousers and all I usually wore a heavy sweater with a a large larse lar e roll collar In plan of ot shirt and colar With a soft sott hat I could c uld let my long hair hang han down my m back be he beneath neath the sweater and nobody would know the difference Then with a gun jammed down In my myrl right rl ht hip pocket I was vas ready to roh rob Adolph was my watchdog mv my m under understudy understudy understudy study He H never went Into a house ho se in his hla life lite Sometimes he would help me by h boosting me up to unlatch a high window but that was the limit or ot Adolph Poor P or Adolph Then I would prowl pro l the house to 0 your hearts Content It was as fun I tell teU you the excitement and all ws w fine But Butof Butot Butof of ot course It had to end l I t always S thought that it would end by my m being shot some seine night as I was burglarizing a house up upon upon upon on the hill bill somewhere Then Them the newspaper newspaper per boys would have a real al story What hat Dead ead gentleman burglar discovered to be bea bea bea a woman In disguise A fine fin story Well WellI ell ellI I guess yes es Its all over oye now but the court room ln scene About a Dozen Doen Burglaries I 1 cant tell exactly alt all allot of the burglaries s that I committed since Adolph and 1 I came cameto cameto to Denver from Salt Lake cit last Au August August gust T I think there were wert about a dozen You can an easily tell as a vou you fund frund most of ot the junk In the street house bouse lU e But Adolph Is not guilty of or stealing He Just acted as lookout for me rae while I Iwas Iwas Iwas was looting residences Also at rot night when returning from a a good haul some somewhere somewhere where I 1 used to try roy my hand at grab grabbing grabbing rah bing a bicycle T r remember riding home on a stolen wheel wh l by bv moonlight That was fun Nobody knew but that I was vaa a aboy aboy aboy boy or man If Louise Schwartz Is all she claims to tobe tobe tobe be In h her confession she is the letter x an unknown quantity to the SmUt Salt Lake police If she committed the thefts she says she did she must be given credit for tor having completely outwitted the local detectives for tor they knew nothing what whatever whatever whatever ever about her operations until the Den Denver Dener ver wr er newspaper containing the story re ye regarding regarding garding her was shown to them last night But the officials here doubt her h r story Chief Sheets Talks To a Herald reporter Chief of ot Detec Detectives tives Sheets last night said saidI I 1 cannot recall a single Incident with ith which this woman could b bo connected In fact I have never neer even een heard of or her It may ma be that she was in SaiD Salo Lake and got away awa with some stuff but if It she did It was WM unknown to the police The only jewelry store robbery we have hae had for some time happened about two to years cars ago It was thought at first that women were connected with the burglary but shortly afterwards a Jewelry store in Spokane was entered by two men and the methods there corresponded with those used here and it was supposed that the same men had done the two to jobs I dont put much credence in the womans story ston although what whal her game Is 15 I 1 cant even een guess Mr and Mrs Schwartz the father tather and antI mother of the errant girl left last Sun Sunday Sunda Sunday day da for Denver Dener immediately ImmedIate after they thc heard of ot the trouble in which their daughter daugh daughter ter Is Involved Before leaving Mr Schwartz told several of o his fellow work workers workers workers ers that his daughter vas wa in trouble and his dejected sorrowful mien spoke plainly of the heartrending caused by the out outcome outcome outcome come of ot the girls infatuation for tor the be betrayer betrayer 1 trayer traer of o the home 1 |